Fwd: High Altitude Balloon coming your way

[Sean Sheedy]

Wow.  It made it to Europe.  6000 miles (a little less if it had gone the great circle route!)

Tom Azlin N4ZPT <tom at n4zpt.org> wrote:

>Hi Sean. And now it is being picked up by a station in Portugal. Might 
>it make it there? 73, tom n4zpt
>
>On 12/13/2011 8:21 PM, Sean Sheedy wrote:
>> This is really exciting.  I followed SNOX IV, the previous distance record holder and it was a real nail biter.  From the balloonists' website, it seems their biggest concerns will be the batteries holding out (4.36 v currently; reaching their 50 hour operational life), amateur radio coverage between the Azores and the coast (reaching the horizon now for hams in the Azores), then balloon deterioration from UV once the sun rises tomorrow.  They have already beaten the previous record set by SNOX IV, by over 2000 miles!
>>
>> Twitter feed at twitter.com/K6RPT
>>
>> Sean AI4ID
>>
>> Tom Azlin N4ZPT<tom at n4zpt.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> Yep, heard -11 as it went by north of us last night. Was neat to hear
>>> it. Guess it will enter the void for a while when it passes out of range
>>> of the islands.
>>>
>>> 73, tom n4zpt
>>>
>>> On 12/13/2011 4:39 PM, Doug Gentges wrote:
>>>> k6rpt-11 is currently being tracked south of the azores headed for morocco!
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>
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